, is another story
Paddy
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- Original Message -
From: Louis Proyect l...@panix.com
To: e.c.apl...@btinternet.com
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Query on British historiography
Paul Flewers wrote:
The Second World
On Sep 19, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Paddy Apling wrote:
...From then [June 22, 1941] on there could be no doubt that WWII
was a just war, a war of
liberation against fascism - and anyone who now seeks to dispute
that is
effectively a holocaust denier.
Anyone who claims that the firestorm
Paddy Apling wrote: Bringing the Bengal famine into the argument is a
red herring. British
communists - and indeed the working class movement in Britain generally,
were active throughout the war - and before - in promoting the
anti-colonial struggle; but all direct contact with Marxists in India
I suppose it must be my age showing but have a fascination with this topic I
must confess and it is good to see Paddy take a part in the thread.
WW2 is a complex phenomenon and it is unfortunate that Trotsky did not live
long enough to make a definitive contribution to its analysis. I am away
Re Lou P's query: I ought to know more about this, but from what I know the
British revisionist historians tend to be right-wingers who feel that
Churchill's line brought Britain unnecessarily into a war with Germany, and
as a result lost its Empire. They feel that Britain could have stayed out of
Andy Newman, the Socialist Unity blogger, has posted a number of
articles recently that can best be described as pro-WWII, for lack of a
better term. In other words, it is the classic CP position even though
Newman has not exactly been associated with the CP.
One article is distinctly odd.
